Australia: British Bank of Australia Limited, £5 shares, 18[89], #389, scrollworkk left, black. Incorporated in Victoria in 1888 but suspended payment in 1891 due to the fall in real estate values and the general banking crisis. The bank did considerable business in Tasmania and a consequence of the fauilure of the Bank of Van Diemens Land was a run of the companys branch in Launceston. VF and rare.